technical issues

I hope I'm posting in the right forum - I'll just apologize in advance for my lack of technical....anything. I have a Gateway desktop that's a couple of years old now and it's running Vista. It was preloaded, so I have no idea what version of Vista - I've never had any reason to check but I...

My computer is less than a year old and has current anti-virus protection through McAfee Total Protection - however on March 16th when I attempted to open internet explorer a small screen popped up stating it couldn't open because it didn't exist, I had been on the internet the night before and...

Dear Experts, Yes, I got the problem here that the version of Window 7 64bit after installed on my motherboard with the hardware has been crash more than 10 times. And it does gaves me the good time when it re-started with a normal behaviour. But after a while, the screen start to freeze...

oke i have W7 ultimate and i have installed pes 2011... i enter the game and start chose option to play but then my sistem crash(restart) and i don't know why :( can anybody help me please...

I just bought a new Dell Inspiron with Windows 7 installed. I went through the setup and created a password containing an &. I entered the password twice and it was accepted. I wrote it down so I would not forget. Now it tells me "The user name or password is incorrect." I called Dell...

Since it seems that Win7 can 'forget' a system image backup, is there any software that can directly use the files generated by Win7's system image app? (acronis and others can transform a sys image to their type but any direct use software?) Cause: If you perform a restore point earlier than a...

I've looked for driver updates on Gateways website for my PS/2 keyboard. Alas there are none. I even had a live chat w/ support and they said since my computer was no longer under warranty I had to pay for extended cust. serv. He said it was an issue w/ the upgrade but refused to give me any...

i was wondering if anyone could be of help to this matter ive been trying to search some info about if there is any way to get this to work on 32 bit its the 5th edition for oregon trail i put the disk in and it doesnt load and nothing pops up..@-)

Hello. I've been experiencing BSOD's within the past 3 months. Even while typing this post for the first time, my computer BSOD'd and I lost the post, so I'll try to make this fast. I've followed the steps on how to ask for help and my RAR file is attached below. While those DMP files will...

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Hello, I've been using Windows 7 x64 for some time now and few days ago it just didn't start anymore. What happens is once I give my password and windows starts to log in it says "preparing your desktop" and after a while says explorer.exe encountered problem and needs to be closed. Only safe...

I've been getting BSOD's ever since I've created my PC, replaced every part except for the case and the graphics card, all the technical information is in the zip file below.

I purchased Windows 7 Ultimate upgrade. I did a clean install of the 32 bit upgrade to my XP Pro computer even though, according to the Windows upgrade advisor, I could install the 64 bit upgrade. This was because I was using Adobe CS3 Master series at the time. I now have Adobe CS5 Master and...

Hi folks... I just reloaded windows 7.... and for some reason I can't seem to watch youtube anymore.. nor can I watch Jon Steward... both embedded video seems to go green then the browser freezes... I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue...? I'm not sure what to do... I'm thinking...

(CNN) -- Facebook was down for many users for several hours Thursday, the second day in a row access to the site was hampered. "Today we experienced technical difficulties causing the site to be unavailable for a number of users," a spokeswoman said in an email. "The issue has been resolved and...

Tonight we are holding a lan party, but everything is going wrong with our Server, Switches, routers and computers. it's all so slow and everyones antivirus and malware programs are popping up saying theres threats. What is going on? :mad:

This morning i logged in and used my computer without any problems, when i had to go and pick up my girlfriend i locked my computer. when i got back i wanted to use my computer again because it's for my work too. but i got a blue screen. it rebooted and i suddenly couldn't log in anymore, i...

My computer has been blue screening rather regularly. It happens more often when I am playing games like WoW or Starcraft 2. The errors tend to be BAD_POOL_CALLER most of the time if that helps. I have attached: 1. All the components for this computer I purchased from newegg. 2. A zipped...

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Hi well, i installed win7. i customized my desktop & all (to show my computer on the desktop for example)... i installed comodo firewall & avg antivirus. & after i restarted my pc all my customization was gone! i got the normal aero theme & all (that i previously canceled)... + the system...